There’s nothing more important than creating an optimal contact center schedule to ensure you and your agents have the structure you need to provide the best service possible. But have you taken the time to check that your contact center schedule isn’t doing more harm than good? A cluttered, complicated schedule can create inefficiencies and…
Most companies aspire to excellence in customer experience (CX). But without getting contact center performance right, all other CX elements – such as marketing, user experience, etc. – will ultimately fall flat. How do you build a high performance contact center? The foundation of contact center success is attracting and retaining skilled and motivated employees…
It probably comes as no surprise that customers are at the center of all we do at Playvox. We love when our customers have the systems, processes, and tools they need to delight their customers. Every interaction our workforce engagement management (WEM) software enables helps agents love their job and encourages customers to love their…
As one of the newest terms to enter the contact center space, workforce engagement management (WEM) is much more than a simple change in the words we use. WEM suites are an evolutionary shift — beyond workforce optimization — brought about by the need to take customer service operations to the next level by placing…
If the labor shortage has left your contact center scrambling for staff, you might have overlooked a potential goldmine of knowledgeable, eager future team members: retirees. According to research by Goldman Sachs, five million people have left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic, and most were over age 55 (3.4 million). Researchers say…
Are your employees excited to come to work each and every day? Or are they disengaged, disinterested, and lacking motivation? Employee engagement is one of the most challenging aspects to master in the contact center. That’s why many organizations are putting increased emphasis on improving their company culture in order to improve employee morale. One…
Agent burnout directly harms the quality of customer service your business provides and significantly hurts your company’s bottom line. It’s hard to ignore the fact that contact centers are plagued with high agent burnout and turnover rates. According to industry studies, average annual turnover ranges between 30-45 percent – with some centers experiencing turnover into…
Delivering exceptional customer experiences is the new competitive advantage. In fact, it’s now the last remaining way to gain a sustainable edge, since traditional sources of differentiation – including price and product – quickly erode with the rapid pace of digital information flow. While it’s hard to argue against the importance of delivering great CX,…
The shift to the cloud only seemed to accelerate when the pandemic sent many workers home in the spring of 2020. And now, with more companies embracing a hybrid work environment, cloud-based solutions no longer seem optional but rather, business critical. While many in the contact center industry are slow to transition away from on-premise…
If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. The conversation identified several contact center trends that, if addressed…
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